WE MAKE LICENSING EASY

NHNZ Moving Images is a division of NHNZ Limited, a New Zealand based production company that creates over 100 hours of factual programming each year for leading international broadcasters A&E, CCTV, National Geographic, Discovery, Smithsonian, Animal Planet and NHK. With offices and production facilities in New Zealand, Washington DC, Singapore and Beijing, NHNZ is one of the leading factual television producers in the world.

We are focused on finding the best shots to meet your creative, editorial and technical requirements, your deadlines and budget.

This means offering per second rates and no minimums, free research, full length shots online, and lower tech costs.

Our footage is made for the international broadcast market and is of the highest production values.

Our researchers are content specialists. Between them they hold a number of degrees in natural history, and in marketing and design, and have been in the stock footage industry for over 40 years collectively.

What Our Clients Say About Moving Images

"Rest assured I’ve recommended the site, your great service and the single, universal licencing arrangement (&price) to several producers both here and overseas.

Gotta be the pragmatic South Islanders’ approach which makes a difference I reckon. It’s kinda bizarre that an industry set up to make existing assets easily available to users to generate income makes the process so darned hard in many cases.

You guys deserve to thrive."

Tony Palmer, TV Producer, Childrens TV, Journalist and Commentator

"Hello Caroline,

I just wanted to drop you note about your recent email and tell you how impressed I am by your approach.

I have bought and sold stock footage for the best part of 40 years and have started to walk away from the industry as, to be honest, it has all got too hard.

On one hand stock footage libraries have become totally driven by the bottom line (Let’s see how much we screw this individual for first and if they squeal drop the price) and on the other, clients have been scared off by the prices being asked and so are happy to rip off footage or work from substandard masters.

As an example, this week I have been working on a project that requires footage for free to air TV in Australia with the possibility later of overseas sales.

It was run of the mill old black and white sugar cane cutting and camp-drafting footage.

One archive wanted $65.00 per sec Australia only and would look at dropping the price after a minute – this in the knowledge that similar footage was available elsewhere.

Another archive wanted less for Australia only but was unwilling to commit to a world licence upgrade later and would treat a later approach for world rights as a completely new licence – even though there would be no work other than writing a fresh licence and taking the money.

In the end, I found some excellent camp-drafting home movies in the National Film and Sound Archive and enlisted the help of an industry body to get the sugar cane stuff. If the other archives had been more reasonable they could have had my money as there was a budget and I am happy to spend the money when it’s there.

I think one problem has always been that the bigger archives look at what the BBC charges and then try the same stunt without thinking that we are smaller fish in a smaller pond.

A few years ago I was turning over the best part of two hundred thousand dollars a year in buying stock footage.

Now, it’s a fraction of that because I am tired of the greed and inflexibility that are killing the industry and I would rather walk away from it all.

So, I hope your initiative works"

John Fife, Filetape, Australia

“Some how I came across NHNZ when looking for animal footage to meet the needs of a rather demanding news magazine type young male oriented TV show for a US based cable network. NNHZ became a go to vendor for our show because not only did they have what we needed that matched the HD video we were shooting BUT they were also so easy to work with. Quick response to research requests. Prompt master requests. Flexible rates and terms.

When I recently left my show after its successful 4 year run and moved over to another company in Los Angeles I was hoping to bring them along BUT when I got there I found out my network not only had NHNZ on a preferred vendors list BUT NHNZ was one of their favourite companies to work with.

PLEASE do yourself a favor and get to know this company and let them meet your footage needs - it will only make your job easier!!!"

John Downey III, Clearances Supervisor on Dozens of TV shows representing Thousands of Hours of Programming!!

"NHNZ Moving Images are my teams “go-to” Natural History footage source for absolutely every single film that involves wildlife from bark scorpions to the great migration. Beyond the easy to use and expansive website, the highly efficient team will have replied quickly to any request and will always have supplied B-roll options via FTP within a day or so. The NHNZ co-pro links often mean the material is fresh to UK and American audiences which are important to our broadcasters."

"We at ZDF have been working together with NHNZ for many years now and this has - without exception - always been a great pleasure. NHNZ is not only highly professional but has always been very helpful - whether researching the archives for suitable footage for our programmes or supplying us with such footage. As a result of this, ZDF has always been more than happy to deal with NHNZ which is always one of the first points of call when we are producing new documentaries..... An additional - for us very positive - point to mention is the fact that NHNZ does not bill us for research done on our behalf and that there is no minimum usage fee - ZDF pays a licence fee solely for the seconds used regardless of how much or how little this is.

Please feel free to also mention our names on your website. With best regards from Christa Wagner and Joanne Wodarz." Acquisition Executives / Rights Management, German Television ZDF

"Appreciate your efficient service, great stuff."

Emerge Films NZ

"What a lovely company to deal with. I have been searching the globe for footage and many footage libraries lack customer service skills. But Caroline and Jamie shine in that area. Nothing is a bother and I hope to do more and more business with them."

knowideas.com.au

" From start to finish I had nothing but exceptional assistance from NHNZ. I was struck by the service, friendliness and promptness in sourcing footage options and ultimately we got a fantastic result primarily by utilizing the intimate and informed knowledge we were given. As suppliers, we couldn't have found better more pleasant colleagues to work with."

Peredale.tv

“Running with Scissors contacted the NHNZ looking for quite specific stock footage for a documentary project. From the outset, NHNZ were friendly, fast and efficient in providing us with suitable options. The process couldn’t have been easier and the NHNZ footage we used looked amazing in the final edit.”

Olly Rudd worked tirelessly to deliver premium shots to us in a timely and economical fashion. His in-depth research provided us with an amazing selection of unique Sooty Shearwater shots to choose from for "The Big Year." His knowledge of our subject matter and his swift delivery of high-quality footage left us with such strong choices it was hard to make a decision. A great experience for us all around."